netdev - Re: [Patch net-next 0/7] net: introduce generic type and helpers for IP address

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Message-ID: <1374755410.29923.3.camel@cr0>
Date:	Thu, 25 Jul 2013 20:30:10 +0800
From:	Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch net-next 0/7] net: introduce generic type and helpers
 for IP address

On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 14:28 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> 
> You're creating bloat in places that don't need a full sockaddr_in{,6}.
> 
> There is a reason some of these pieces of code used custom types, to
> minimize the overhead.

Do you mean the inetpeer part? I can drop it if you think it harms
performance. Actually it only increases the struct by 8 bytes, if I do
calculation correctly.

Thanks.

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